Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

I dont read much horror, but here are 5 i love in no particular order:

Devil's Disciple: The Deadly Dr. H.H. Holmes by Judy Miller SnavelyBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiDark Harvest by Norman PartridgeHell House by Richard MathesonIn a Dark Place by Ray Garton (out of print and hard to find. Maybe you can get it from the library, thats where I got it from. It wont disappoint though)

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5.Swan Song by Robert. R. Macammon (horror)4.The Stand by Stephen King (horror)3. Head Hunter by Micheal Slade ( horror/mystery/crime)2. It by Stephen King (horror)1. Books of Blood by Clive Barker (horror)

Jaws is way up there, top ten for sure, on my list of overall favs too RIP.

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

Constantce wrote:

Hell House, Richard Matheson

Perfume, Patrick Suskind

Well we agree on something! I loved Hell House and I am a HUGE fan of Perfume. I didnt add Perfume to my list as it isnt as much horror as some, but it's a great story. One of my favorite books and the movie was pretty decent too.

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

Could you really class Weaveworld as horror? I'd classify it more as fantasy, excellent book though.I'd swap silence of the lambs for the Hannibal omnibus, they are all excellent novels and I have to read them in order

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

And what do you mean we agree on something? Didn't you see on Facebook that we are movie "Soulmates?" We matched up better than anyone else.

The Hell House graphic novel came out recently - I'd rate it about a 6 out of 10.

Well considering I said the movie was pretty decent, then yes that means I've seen the movie. lol. Yeah I mean its not as effective as the book by any means. It's hard to convey all the sense of smell he has in visual form. At least writing can be descriptive to explain how his sense of smell works, visually it was tough to do.

Overall I think they did a decent job with it though. They cut out the whole section of when he was living in the cave though. So there is a whole section of the book gone. It's worth a rent if you liked the book though, just like Choke will be worth the rent when that comes out.

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

Macho, I do because yes there is an element of horror. True it is fantasy but there are many moments in the story that verge to the more grotesque side of horror. So I class it as a horror-fantasy, make fun but I am a strange creature

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

Here are some really good vampire books. No romance, just horror.Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson13 Bullets and 99 Coffins by David WellingtonStake and The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard LaymonBlood Red by James A. Moore

The only good werewolf book I can remember reading is The Howling by Gary Brandner

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RIP wrote:

Does anyone know of any good werewolf or vampire novels besides Salem's Lot and Silver Bullet?

I've heard good things about David Wellington's vampire series. I dont know if there is an actual name in the series but the books (in order) are: 13 Bullets, 99 Coffins, and Vampire Zero. Maybe give 13 Bullets a read and see if the series is worth reading the rest of.

I havent read them but heard they are pretty decent. He wrote Monster Island which I also hear is a good zombie novel.

Re: Your top 5 horror or true crime novels

These are some of my favourites:

Red Dragon (or any of the Lecter books apart from the ending of 'Hannibal') - Thomas Harris Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist (just read it and loved it - much gorier than the film!) The Stand (or any of his earlier books) - Stephen King The Rats (or almost any of his books) - James Herbert Every Dead Thing (all his books) - John ConnellyDark Rivers of the Heart (or almost any of his books) - Dean Koontz

For true crime, I've read a few but books about Jack the Ripper are my favourite.